Appalachia, VA Noise Levels
Appalachia, VA: what the federal noise map shows
At Appalachia, VA, road, rail and aircraft noise all fall below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's national map can distinguish from silence. Appalachia's reading comes from a single sampled point, not a block-by-block sweep, so a specific address here could genuinely differ.
Where Appalachia ranks
Appalachia, VA sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. By population, it ranks 9,071 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 1,376 people.
Your street may differ from Appalachia's reading
For a single house or lot in Appalachia rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.
More on how this number was built
For exactly which federal dataset feeds Appalachia's figure, see the methodology guide. The guide to reading a quiet result explains what "no measurable noise" actually means at Appalachia.